Half Of Claims For New Disability Benefit Rejected As Massive Backlog Develops

Early figures from the DWP reveal that half of all claims for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) have been rejected. Appalling the figures also show that claimants are waiting up to six months for a decision on their claim whilst a massive backlog is developing.

PIP replaces Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and is currently being rolled out for new claims only in some parts of the UK. Most DLA claimants will not be re-assessed until Autumn 2015 when the notorious Atos, along with bungling Capita, will begin the work of stripping vital benefits from a fifth of disabled people.

PIP began in April with 31,900 claims made by July, jumping to 99,600 by August and 171,800 by October. At the end of the year 229,700 total claims had been made for PIP. Despite this just 43,800 decisions had been made by December 2013.

These figures include people with terminal conditions who are fast tracked through the process under special rules. When this group is removed from the figures, just 34,200 decisions had been made by December, despite a caseload of 22o,300 people awaiting a decision by the end of the year.

Most of these claims were rejected. For those not covered by the ‘Special Rules For Terminally Ill People’ only 37% of PIP claims were successful.

Government ministers have lied through their teeth to justify stripping away this vital benefit from disabled people. Last year Esther Mcvey made the astonishing claim that 50% of DLA claims were successful on the basis of the application form alone with no corroborating medical evidence. The true figure was around 10%.

The worst impact of PIP is set to come after the next election – and Labour have not said they will halt the re-assessments if they win. But these early figures give a hint of the vicious shambles to come with almost a quarter of a million disabled people already waiting months on end for a benefit they need – but probably will not get.

consultant £2,000 a day to cover the job of a civil servant at a time of cost-cutting that has already led to 50,000 civilian and military jobs being axed, the Guardian can reveal.
The appointment of Yvonne Ferguson at the MoD is thought to have made her one of the most highly paid staff in Whitehall – with a pro rata salary of more than £500,000 pa.
Ferguson has been drafted in to help streamline the department’s myriad IT systems, but the appointment has caused concern among some senior colleagues, who have seen staff axed because of deep cuts to the defence budget.
The MoD says it has had to pay Ferguson the market rate for her services – she was recruited from ***Capita***, the government’s support services provider.

There’s that cozy relationship with Crapita..
She gets paid how much at a time when PIP payments and DLA cut…
following ” assessments ” from Crapita

I wish that I could say I am surprised, but sadly I am not, this government seem determined to destroy peoples lives. The next government probably won’t be any better, they are all in it to line their own pockets, while emptying ours.

I know its a bit off topic, but as long as the crown is in charge, and all in government positions swear allegiance to them, or they attain nothing. things will never change, as long as you all pay for them and let them live their sordid lives at our expense, things will never change. Watch ‘Unlawful killing’ for a few more surprises.

there were 660000 on motability scheme and rtu used this figure to say theyl get 660000 off benefits why this figure initself but married up to the mobility scheme then they new they new there wouldn’t be any disabled left they took their cars away never have disabled sick unemployed been portrayed has scroungers yet who doesn’t tighten their belts who asks for more off course the real social scroungers are those chalitans in parliame
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Can you imagine Cameron driving the old 3 wheeled blue invalid car? I sense this death trap will make a come back. How dare rich boy Scameron take mobility. He could afford horse driven carriages for all of his kids and pets.

joanna im glad you bought that up it needs to be out there,he claimed full dla while his son was alive,god bless little lad but how could these horrific policies have been introduced if he was alive,sorry to put it like that

I hope I am not paranoid here but on BBC regarding floods where they have called in the army ..it said that ppl were concerned about looting of empty properties due to flooding and that they have called in police to set up road blocks and check points .
Does that sound a bit odd ? Checkpoints ?
Is the UK at war or under seige ..

The last 4 times (2 months in total) I have been approached after signing on, and have been ordered… to sign on! I say ‘I just did’. They say I didn’t, and deny they just signed me. Threatened with sanction for lateness or not signing on. When I was on time and when I had just signed, they ignored crucial evidence like the new job log form, for the next two weeks, which you can only obtain by signing on.

@raining ..it was..I even signed the 38 degrees petition on it.
Plus some residents took the petition to a Tory MP who called the police .
That was reported in newspapers..
I read it thats why I am able to tell you this

I never read it in any mainstream press program or publication. I’m talking about the BBC news ITV and the like plus the BBC web site. No mention of it there or if it is it’s buried away behind the scenes. 38 degrees is not really what i’d call a mainstream publication. When i say that i mean the major TV channels and newspapers. 99% of the mainstream press are run/owned by individuals with a right wing agenda. That’s the real reason it was all kept very quiet.

@raining 38 degrees is a petition site.
It campaigned against gagging law because it would be affected by the new law
I subscribe to it.

Whilst lookibg up articles on this subject the item about the Tory MP that called the cops because of it I found .
The gagging law has as much to do with keeping secret business lobbying
Oddly enough that Tory MP sits on intelligence committee which is to do with secrecy ..

@raining after I came across this report by a security firm that had been snooping on disabled activists I offered it to journist in main stream who dropped it like a brick and didnt want to touch it.
That must tell you something ..
And yes I passed it onto the disabled activist
group who thanked me for it .

Yeah that doesn’t surprise me one bit. Mainstream news outlets don’t want to rock the boat and certainly don’t want to educate people as to controversial laws that are gonna be affecting their lives, usually negatively. My original point was that Joe Bloggs probably doesn’t read political blogs and sites like this so tends to only get fed what your standard news outlets feed him. So much happens that he doesn’t hear about. Now i believe that if the gagging order was more widely known about by the general public there’d be much more of a vocal backlash against these corrupt idiots who are trying to stifle any protests. Now we’ve got a situation where charities like the Trussell Trust have been silenced, unless they’re prepared to accept the possible legal ramifications down the line. Truly disgusting piece of legislation and makes the UK seem more like Nazi Germany.

@raining true ..but you got to realise that Trussel trust was setup by conservative venture capitalists. And I don’t think they did that out of charity ..they charge a setup fee after all.

Ps here is a staggering thought..
Cayman islands has approx 60,000 residents
And in one building 18,000 business are regisrted there ..apparently pres Obama said that must be one of the biggest buildings ever. Or
One of the biggest tax avoidance scams ever.

TT are also q. corporate in their approach – sending out a representative to explain to local groups people setting up a TT foodbank which logo/s they should use/what type of tabards etc. their staff should wear, at a starting-up meeting. TT foodbanks are franchises(?). The one setting up, in this area had the stated intention of talking to people about their circumstances on arrival – over a hot drink – and ‘signposting/referring’ to outside agencies – eg. drug & alcohol, if thought relevant. (More lay people passing judgement on people who have been referred for basic necessities – people already at a low ebb – to expect them ot take the handout and not feel obligated when the request to give the particular religion a try is made (captive audience) … So not a case of just turning up & being given some emergency rations … not made clear in any publicity materials/information given out in the local community regarding the new ‘Foodbank.

Their approach is to include an invitate to church /either meeting/service as part & affecting their lives/ helping them to alter their circumstances. It felt patronis\ing/paternalistic and misguided – and intrusive –
& so didn’t pursue voluntary work there. it did seem as if intention of the setting-up group was to help those less well-off/in crisis, but not by meeting basic requirement for food. It definitely didn’t feel like a free lunch or ‘something for nothing’ – more lke crisis intervention (foodwise) … but with strings/implied judgements attached.

Off-topic but I found this slightly amusing – Parliament is currently debating Fairness and Inequality, and Jacob Reese-Mogg (Tory twit par excellence) got up and said (I’m paraphrasing here) “it is unacceptable for those out of work to be better off than those who do work”, then followed this up with “the benefit system traps people in poverty”…

Now, don’t these statements come across as mutually contradictory? Oh the mental gymnastics the Tories will use to justify their attacks on those dependent on our Social Security system!

samwise
exactly, sums up their 2 places at once DENIAL, they grab a grain of possibility, magically spin and speak , as if, they are talking universal truth…their denial being the key word in everything that has happened and is happening from war to welfare massacre to flooding et al….

In this section
What are Personal Independence Payments?Capita Health and Wellbeing

What are Personal Independence Payments?

In April 2013, as part of the Government’s welfare reform agenda, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in the UK, and the Social Security Agency (SSA) in Northern Ireland, is introducing a new benefit called the Personal Independence Payment (PIP).

Designed to replace the Disability Living Allowance (DLA), PIP is an enabling benefit for people aged 16-64, with long-term health conditions or impairments, whether physical, sensory, mental, developmental or a combination of these.

The new benefit is designed to better reflect today’s understanding of disability. It’s non-means-tested and focused squarely on helping with the extra costs that disabled people face to lead independent lives.

Unlike DLA, where claimants are expected to assess themselves by way of a claim form, those claiming PIP will have a detailed, face-to-face discussion with a healthcare professional about how their disability or impairment affects their everyday life.

***Assessments will be conducted in the claimants own home or at a local consultation centre. The expert report produced from that assessment, when considered alongside other evidence, will help Decision Makers at the DWP and SSA determine the benefit they award.***

In this section
Being part of a dedicated team
Disability Assessors
Job description
Support Roles

“Disability Assessor

What the job involves

Our objective when carrying out each and every PIP assessment is to ensure each claimant is assessed in a professional and consistent manner. Our Disability Assessors will need to evidence the impact of the claimant’s health condition or disability in the report they will prepare for the DWP and SSA, which is why we need experienced healthcare professionals like you.

In these key roles, you’ll start by familiarising yourself with the claimant’s information before meeting with them and conducting the assessment in their home or at one of our consulting centres. During this assessment, you’ll gather both formal and informal evidence and combine this with your own observations to justify and explain the descriptors you chose when completing a written report.

We also have roles for Disability Assessors to work in our Initial Review Team. This team will be responsible for reviewing claimants’ case files to determine the most appropriate type of assessment for them. They’ll look for any gaps in the information and decide whether requesting further evidence would enable a more robust PIP Assessment.

Finally, we have opportunities for Assessors in our Escalation Team. This team will provide subject matter expertise, and manage any cases being re-submitted by the DWP and SSA. Working to short timescales, its members will determine where the initial assessment report had fallen short, define the appropriate course of action and either produce a revised report themselves or pass to a colleague in the field for re-assessment.

Members of this team will offer a managerial perspective and support understanding with subject matter expertise. They’ll also work closely with our Business Assurance Team and our Regional Team to ensure standards are met and that new information is disseminated to create a culture of continuous improvement.”

I had trouble finding that too, but it is there – it’s a few pages down (just click on “next section” at the bottom of the page a few times). The quote is as follows: ” I fundamentally disagree. I do not think that it is fair that people who do not work should be better off than people who do. Indeed, I think that is wrong. I do not think that it is fair that people should be trapped in poverty by decisions that the state makes.”

I have been reading online disability forums where participants who have had DLA disallowed are awaiting PIP decisions ..they have been waiting months and months now
And still no decision
A friend of mine who had her lifetime DLA removed is worried how she will keep her job as the DLA helps her able to drive to work.
She has brittle bone disease and is in pain and not able to use buses .
She is worried she may lose her job as result of this ridiculous decision
Strange how a party that believes in work is risking someone losing their job because of penny pinching policies.

I can recall the days of the old DSS medical. The local office was in town on a steep hill. I used to watch people falling over walking up this hill. Until I realised it was the DSS ‘fit for work’ test. You had to fall over in the street to ‘pass’ the test and be signed off as unfit for work.

Drive over him, and he may view disability somewhat differently. Who knows. Worth a try. Or for the sake of experiment and to boost scientific knowledge. Or just for the hell of it.

Would a paralysed IDS like being got up at 7am each morning and dragged into workfare? No power to heat a kettle or pan because they cut it off, because his benefits got stopped? Would he like to look after screaming starving kids at the same time, who just about go to school (keeping him out of jail as an ‘aider of truancy’), who keep falling asleep or passing out in school and the kids and teachers say they’re unwashed and smelly? “Um there’s no water miss, they cut that off too.” Kids who can’t do homework because the computer was pawned or reposessed or the library was demolished, or they have textbooks they can’t read as the lights don’t work. Household budgeting that is not a choice between food or heating, but a choice (as unable to afford either) between paying rent and getting in trouble with bills, and paying bills and getting in arrears with rent.

I honestly think that things are collapsing around this un-elected coalition and that the amount of pressure they are under is getting to them. There are complaints and arguments from so many members of the public that they are beginning to see that they won’t be in power for much longer.
All I can say is, the floods, which have affected so very many people, have shown just how bad this government are when their backs are against the wall. In the US this would have been called a disaster and things would have moved faster and people would have been thought of – not had to wait six weeks before money and the army were brought in – it’s also showed the people that the threat to the Thames and along it are more important than anyone or anything else as they have practically promised the earth to those affected along there.screwed this government up and made people see just how bad that they are!
The floods have also shown that this government is inept at doing anything – the collapse is coming, and it’s coming soon!

An apology to UKIP.
Dear UKIP guy. If you are feeling a little soggy, damp, moist or submerged lately, I apologise. Sorry for causing all the flooding and other random weather.

Suggest you meet up with Nick Griffin in the sauna so you can towel eachother dry. Like manly, patriotic men ought to do.
If it then starts raining inside the sauna, this could be due to overenthusiasm, or of course to possible latent tendencies.

Cumulonimbus clouds are the ones to watch out for because they are the weather community’s biker-bears. If determined at all costs to avoid catching homosexuality, stay away from rainbows, prisms, oily puddles, boxes of wax crayons, and if at all possible the entire visual light spectrum.

Would you like a rubber ring or inflatable crocodile to lie on while the weather continues being gay at you?

@Obi Wan call me Dave seems to have accepted they will BD kicked out..he said as much during his press statement with his ‘ red tape ‘ bollocks. That seems odd now with all the floods ..they are intdbt on cutting public services and outsourcing to useless companies. Wonder if G4S involved in flood defences

Well…. Tory Regime of NEW NAZIS cut £860 million from the flood prevention budget back in 2010.
Surprised “Labour” haven’t yet been pointing that out.
Most places hit by these floods all have tory MPs. Some are the blue Cameron division, some are the orangy-yellow, Clegg poodle division. They all were of the opinion that public services were too costly and not needed. Thus we see Counties in England closing down fire stations, and letting go police officers, etc.
Now these flooded ppls want to know why they don’t see police, etc, or wait for a fire engine, and why the local councils ain’t doin enough, “Where are all the council workers”, etc, etc.
As it happen now, it’s gonna cost billions more to redress something that might have at least been mitigated to some extent if all that money had not been cut to begin wid.

Meanwhile, they keep telling us the poor, the sick, unemployed, and disabled, etc, are costing us way too much money. They can’t afford to pay them a dime. And besides, all those ill ppls an disabled ppls aren’t really.
So what does Regime do??? Spend billions an billions a year extra of welfare money on ATOS, A4E, etc,so the bosses can pay themselves £22,000 a day and then blame it all on the ppl who have nothing!
As Cameron has said, money is not a problem…so long as it is not going to the ppl, but to his pals.
And Labour…sorry…the party that used to be “Labour” do nothing. Actually the promise a lot more of the same.
The floods may be from nature, as they say, but the disaster it has become is made by the Regime at Westminster.
My only concern regards these floods is also that voiced by bobchewie ! And I wonder if Cameron’s money promise extends to them

@gordon keane yes apparently we are / were broke and yet all of a sudden we have unlimited resources …money no problem
And yet cuts and cuts keep happening
The daily hate complains money is thrown at foreign aid and not spent on flood affected people . Yes I am sure flooded and starved ppl abroad who die as a result are less worthy As if that money would help anyway .
And yet our benefit related death toll keeps rising and not a fucking word in our ” free press “

Watched that buffoon Cameron uttering those words in disbelief and Eric Pickles proudly proclaiming “we’re a rich country!” So let’s get this straight; they have unlimited resources now to pay for flood damage, because we’re a rich country, but yet they’re breaking their backs to sanction people on benefits who have nothing!! How does that one work?

Jackpot. I can not say that I am THAT sorry for the mainly Tory gits that are the victims of the floods. These people do not want to pay taxes (generalising, I know) for the common good. They are the first to scream for money to be bailed out, and receive it. What about the floods in Hull a couple of years ago? There were still people living in caravans two years later. Oh I am sorry I nearly forgot- these people were mainly poor and Northern.

@Flumps i thought this blog was about problems connected to PIP assessments
It seems I am only one posting on this subject along with Geoff’s very vocal campaign re Atos Unum crooked health insurance and the usual gang of suspects
Litchfield Aylwood Carol Black Gunyon etc

Does anyone look at my links ?

I eveb quote from links to make it easier so that all know what’s said…

Silly me, Bob, and there was I thinking that this was a post about the Nazis… well, never mind, let’s talk about PIP assessments instead as if that is going to help us overthrow the current Neo-Nazi regime.

@Bobina my dear all I was suggesting that posting comments which fitted the topic of this blog and related benefit woes .

Eg I was wondering how the PIP assessment
process worked ..hence me looking it up on Crapita site…and noting apart from the £32k assessors were paid they got £60 per report
which is £40 plus £20 depending on the grade or ‘ quality ‘ of the report thus making
wonder if this £20 extra was if the report resulted in a denial of Benefit ..thus an incentive was being used
But if you wanna do Hitler jokes you go right ahead…

I agree entirely with what you say, their little world is collapsing all around them as we speak.
They have proved inept in everything they do.
The bedroom tax will soon be scrapped as the use of a bedroom as a boat shed will be called into question……………..
Flooding will bring them down a peg or two. It will highlight, as you rightly say, how completely useless they really are.

Somewhere in the corridors of Westminster, a government official will be planning a Noah’s Ark strategy.
The rich and wealthy will be welcomed on board but the disabled and poor will be denied access…………………

“THE GOVERNMENT THINK TANK HAS NOW BECOME THE NATIONS SEPTIC TANK”

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,all the shit that they have thrown at us is now swirling round their bloated ankles.

Are you kidding? I’m in the US and they’re just letting people die here, at best you can expect homeless and no medical treatments while you wait unless you’re some (very few) who were secure enough to not need the pension in the first place. I checked the stats and the disability program approval percentage hasn’t moved in the last decade even though the increase in apps is almost triple. You don’t want to know what they do to our vets but a thirty percent of our homeless are vets most of who can’t even get decent medical treatment.. The healthcare reform was a joke just meant to shore up the insurance industry and locked just about anybody over 45 from employment. American hype, don’t dream here. I’d gladly give it back to the queen but i’m pretty sure she doesn’t want it.

i have been to the jobcentre today,my advisor couldn’t even work the computer properly.then he had the cheek to talk to me as if i was something he just stood in.the jobcentre staff are getting worse.they are just plain nasty

If there are delays and rebellion at Crapita over PIP then why oh fucking why were they given the contract when its evident that they are NOT up to the job…we have seen all this before as result of outsourcing to privateers ..but again and again they keep getting contracts ..bloody hell Lord Fraud speeches are called ” Capita speeches ” does that tell you just how cozy this fucking lot are to business …its stinks of corruption

“What qualifications do PIP assessors have??????
Just thinking out loud a little really about the fact that I had a PIP assessment at home on 04/11/2013 (Capita) by a lady I called Doctor several times as I naturally assumed a person making an assessment on my physical health should be a doctor preferably specialised in my particular problems. After a while I was corrected by the lady who stated she was a nurse, I never gave this a second thought and failed to ask what type of nursing she was qualified in.

I recently had cause to speak by chance to a lady who is involved in tribunal process for pip and other things and got to talking about the nurse in question. The lady advised me that the assessor could be a dental nurse or other type of nurse with no experience in assessing physical or mental issues etc…..

It’s just a thought but I think we should be getting some kind of idea of who is assessing us and their title along with their formal qualifications to give us some kind of idea of their ability to assess us. Just think an assessment could be conducted by someone from a dental practice who I’d say is hardly qualified to come into our homes to conduct such an important assessment which if failed will have a huge impact on our well being. (By the way I’m not putting down anyone who works in the dental profession as my wife is employed in a dental lab but is hardly qualified to conduct such assessments.)

When I think I had an assessment at my home address (no result yet, still waiting to hear) by a person who I knew nothing about.

It’s just a thought that in a future tribunal it could well be the fact that as part of the appeal process the fact that the assessor is not qualified in the correct medical field for example to conduct the assessment could be bought up. We will only have an idea of their ability/qualifications if we ask.

I hope this makes sense, another example might be say a mental health nurse assessing me with physical disabilities. How is the mental health nurse qualified to assess me?”

Silly me I thought it was about PIP assessment failures …never mind let’s talk about nazis instead …which will do what exactly …will we figure out wtf is going on with this PIP stuff and what’s going on and how it affects lots of people or shall we make jokes about hitler and jackboots

@GEOFF also I want to explore the claim that A4e had a hand in designing the WCA. as I posted ages back that some A4e bod claimed A4e helped design the WCA.. What a crooked company. Done for fraud helped set it up ?

Chris Grayling: The work capability assessment was developed in 2008 with the assistance of technical working groups. As you may be aware, the Government consult widely with stakeholders and sources of public and private sector expertise, to ensure that its policies are evidence-based. Two Unum employees, a doctor and an occupational therapist, were invited to join the technical working group that carried out the review of the personal capability assessment. As with all members of the technical working group they were appointed as recognised experts in benefit assessment and in supporting return to work for people with disability.

Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope

A previous Chair of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Work and Pensions, Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope, is listed in the House of Lords Register of Interests (Session 2006-2007) as the Chairman of the Unum Customer Advisory Panel for which he received payment from Unum and additional payments for other work for Unum.

Extracts from the Report of the Physical Function and Mental Health Technical Working Groups.
Commissioned by DWP sept 2006.

There is still work to be done,to test the proposed new assignment in a live environment. This will be done by asking ATOS MEDICAL SERVICES DOCTORS to complete a PCA on incapacity benefit claimants.

Unum’s website states that during this sponsorship period “a series of papers was published, identifying the range of factors that determine why some people become long-term absentees”. The Cardiff papers advocated a “biopsychosocial model” of disability which Unum says “informed its approach to medical underwriting”. It is the same approach upon which the current Atos work capability assessment (WCA) is based. Concomitantly, the company were advising the UK government on welfare reform.

@GEOFF very interesting ..on linkedin site I found a character there claiming they had assisted malcolm harrington setting up the WCA. He worked for A4e. He also claimed that Lord Fraud ” got all his best ideas from us ( A4e) ..”

@Becky in the Booth ..well since you have made yourself look an idiot I will go through this slowly just for you ok ?
1 A4e a so called work program provider has on many repeated occasions been charged with the criminal act of fraud .
They have a policy of persuading claimants to sign a document that allows A4e to claim it haa assisted claimants to find a job when it hadn’t ..The result was that they would claim several hundred pounds per claimant
Using this fraudulent method .

Ok so far Becky ?

2 This same A4e company that has been found to have committed fraud now claim they had a strong influence at DWP in that they closely worked on the WCA along with Malcolm Harrington the creator of the tick box test and also claim to have provided a senior minister lord Freud with an abundance of ideas which were to be implented into policy ..

With me so far Becky ?

Ok so well placed as an organisation with such influence at DWP that they met with PM David Cameron who was impressed with them and were invited to number 10 and offer advice on benefit matters. .
And what with the scandal of Emma Harrison too…oh and Andy Coulson the phone hacking scandal as PM adviser..

Well all in all it suggests number 10 involves itself with frauds who break the law..

Now then Becky just fuck off back to Tory HQ or whatever rotting fishtank you crawled from ….

And it is not down to lack of money as Cameron publicly stated on news this afternoon that “We are a wealthy nation” so what is driving these brutal disability cuts appeasing to IDS? Pure hate? wish I knew as it is not money driven

Neoliberalism gov have dismantled the welfare state whilst they feathered the nests of the rich, and they fucking celebrated this. Well everyone is so angry with the constant contradictory messages and double binds these authoritarians spew out. These are designed to drive a person insane, and to cover their own dirty tracks of course. All they care about is power, money and adulation. They have no conscience or they would worry about the misery they are causing people, and the fact that these stealth abuse policies are causing people to die, quickly or slowly. Basically they couldn’t give a shit.

Well then, to switch dla to pip was a clear sign that this benefit is stolen for many and gone forever, just like incapacity switch to esa, then stolen. Fucking daylight robbery!! Basically disability benefit for many is abolished!!!! Why don’t they just admit the truth and say ‘we abolished the welfare state’. How will they justify this? perhaps people don’t need it any more because they survive so well on minimal wage, and a miracle happened , all the sick and disabled in the land all got better, and dumped their mobility scooters.

Do they think the poor will get rich on the minimal wage, and get on the property ladder with it? Surely not? They think they will say ‘ England is great again, all because of us the Tory party, clearing up the mess what labour left behind’. What kind of fucking mess are they going to leave behind in 2015?

@jasmine the Tories beleive they are the natural party of government and is irked when thrown out ..they think the electorate wasn’t thinking properly ..
They will leave a mess so that labour will struggle with it make another mess and get kicked out…Dave legacy will be that HIS administration had the guts to privatise the NHS….

Jasmine: “Speak when you’re spoken to and don’t talk back or you will be ordered to leave the jobcentre and I will have you banned from this office!! Do you understand! DO YOU UNDERSTAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Theres a storm brewing from october 2015 when the lifetime/indefinite awards have to start to claim PIP as well as the £21 lower rate DLA there’s the disability premium that’s even more £31 a week for a single person on jobseekers allowance for example.there’s also a loss of council tax relief too

This doesn’t mean the person isn’t any less disabled,also DlA remains for those under 16 and over 65,slashing benefits is all to do with spending cuts under making work pay.this group is a substantial disadvantage compared to others in finding work,jobcentres dont like people declaring a non immediate visible disability to employers’ at application stage’s but to be covered by the equality act they have to.if they don’t and problems related to their disability surface they will simply be dismissed and not covered.that’s if they find work at all and get to the interview stage.

The reason these benefits are lifetime/indefinite is because people with for example learning difficulties are affected throughout their lifetimes,many will have little education and been traumatised with resulting mental health problems’.

Today someone with this condition is likely to find themselves at the brunt of post work programme “support” in the jobcentre simply aimed at just getting rid of them.

When PIP was first designed it was deliberately designed to exclude lower levels of support that came with the DLA system. There would be no Low Rate Care or Low Rate Mobility payable with PIP. This would automatically result in one third of DLA awards being removed under PIP.

Osbourne and IDS both announced that PIP would reduce the amount payable under DLA by one third. The announcement was made in the context of reassessing disabled people to deal with fraud. It was a nonsense. The only determinant of what PIP would be was how the beads on the abacus settled.

For people with MH problems, the lower rates of DLA have so frequently, been a lifesaver and they can be the difference between making it, and not making it. For instance if, someone cannot use public transport due to severe anxiety, the LRM DLA component might allow them to run a modest car or take a taxi or pay for petrol to someone giving them a lift. The payments enable them to get to health care appointments, job interviews and yes, even to work. Take the payments away and you take away the ability of that person to attend those events completely.

Mental Health is right at the bottom of the barrel as a priority in this country. Those disabled in this way are the easiest fish to shoot. People with MH problems are the least likely to receive a fair PIP assessment or even an award.

damned if you do, and damned if you don,t!!
Why do they say if you do not attend the atos assessment you will loose your benefit BUT
If you go to the assessment like they tell you too, they stop your benefit, saying you managed to get here, so you can not have a disability ?????????????????

Ha Ha , there was once a ‘Big Stink’ that came from the Thames and bothered the members in westminster. Now the Thames is threatening to wash away ‘The Big Stink’ coming FROM westminster. .
Mother Nature must have noticed all the methane and hot air coming from that pigsty.

ok,this may seem a little “trivial” but its the symptom of a deeper darker illness endemic in the tories,cameron appeared on news at his mates mantion flood area,he looked his 48 years balding and greyhaired,fast forward 4 hours to so called “press conference” suddenly his hair has come back and its a brown chestnut colour a miracle indeed so i assume the hours spent between flood and conference spent,not worrrying about peoples situation and trying to solve it,but having his HAIR DYED AND SORTED narsiscstic or what?

“Our correspondent said that, with so many homes in the village evacuated, there was a real fear some of the empty properties might be looted so the Army had set up checkpoints on some roads to monitor overnight who comes and who goes.”

@OBI WAN. Ignore the faily hate ..its full of crap ..slashing foreign aid won’t do fuck all
First we will look like selfish cunts on the world stage.especially when the ppl in those
countries are devastated with famine droughts and yes massive floods greater than ours. And massive death tolls…and being cynical foreign aid is linked to trade ..so that will be fucked..

ONE MUST NOT JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE GOVERNMENTS INTENTIONS, BUT BASED ON PRESENT REFORMS, HOW LONG BEFORE WE GET DENTISTRY DENIAL AND EYESIGHT DENIAL?

CAN YOU IMAGINE GOING INTO A DENTIST WITH A ROW OF BROKEN BLACK STUMPS AND BREATH OF A BACTRIAN CAMEL. ONLY TO BE TOLD THEY LOOK PERFECT!

……….OR STUMBLING INTO AN OPTICIANS WITH A BROKEN NOSE AND BRUISING AROUND THE EYES, ONLY TO BE TOLD YOUR EYESIGHT IS PERFECT, ALTHOUGH YOUR FRAMES MIGHT NEED TIGHTENING………..

WHERE WILL IT ALL STOP?

WHERE HAS PRETENDING SOMETHING DOESN’T EXIST, GOT US ANYWHERE IN THE PAST?

IMAGINE YOUR HOUSE FULL OF GAS, ONLY TO BE INFORMED IT’S IN YOUR IMAGINATION OR IN A FLOODED PROPERTY AND TOLD, A LOT OF CUSTOMERS WOULD LOVE A RIVER VIEW!…………….

ABSURDITY COMES TO MIND, BOB?

…………..as for the links to a4e and the compilation of wca questions, of course there will be a link.
.Pages from any documentation relating to these matters have been carefully, painstakingly redacted as have files from the internet…….

THE GOVERNMENT IS LIKE A ONE FINGERED PERSON TRYING TO STOP A COLANDER FULL OF WATER LEAKING, EVERY TIME THEY BLOCK A HOLE ANOTHER ONE GUSHES FORTH……….

INEVITABLY THEY WILL LIE THEMSELVES INTO A CORNER. A SITUATION THEY WILL NEVER ESCAPE FROM……………

@Donkey. Its to deny benefits whatever the cost in human terms and to present it to gullible public as some kind of ‘ reform / cleaning up operation of ‘ labours overspending ‘ mess ‘. By demonizing claimants it’s to direct money to privateers who donate to Tories and send msg that labour fund lazy people thus making it ironic that the party is called labour ie working
Its a rehash of Thatchers labour isnt working campaign
In answer to your question it seems Fester McVile has suggested not ruling out scrapping WCA ( see my post )
Probbly replace with much worse test
The assessment for work and disability should be scrapped due to the harm both havd caused and let’s face it negative publicity ..of course this means no gravy train for the privateers which is good as they have proved how useless they are and not save tax payers money in fact opposite

@donkey they will have to appeal to tory voters ..so suspending the assessments will be on cost effective ness and not human terms ..
It means getting Tory support sadly as they are the ones they listen to..
Whether they replace with worse I dont know..the other problem is if the privateers have got a compensation scheme if they lose the contract ie govt compensates them…

So there might be legal problems..one would need to see the contracts and fine print ..I am sure they will have lawyers all over it..

chewie
it’s purpose of pip/wca/or whatever new scheme that replaces or supplements these…is to deny, delay, sanction, cause as much hardships as possible and to put people off of claiming their lawful benefits entitlements….

Ok question for you …do Tories want to cause genuine hardship ?
They are bean counters at heart …
And use spin to justify cutting …

What happens when that poverty becomes highly visible ? How much spin can you explain it away till ppl realise you cannot
And ideally would their supporters give a fuck. I am sure there are somd that do…its understanding that party ..its not one party but two ie factions often at war with each other ..the back bench 22 brigade thr hangem flogem brigade vs the cary shary eco friendly tories eco friendly as in making money out of it ( tim yeo)
Then you got the neo con privatise the planet young tories …

chewie
putting off, is not the same as denying, but may ultimately, have the same affect and is very frustrating…yes, they want to cause hardship…poverty will be pushed away from their sight..out of sight out of mind…what is there to understand? are you looking for hope? trying to wake them up, so they change their ways? they are in denial and shaped by their denial, which is why the seek power to be in charge of their denial…the best thing to do is to know your rights and fight for them…your friend with brittle bone has to fight for hers…by cause of they act as if all is well, they are spinners hoodwinkers and dupers..stand up for your rights there is no point in trying to convince them to change…shaming them won’t work, exposing them will work…imho follow jv’s lead on which causes to fight, he has it down to a fine art….please forgive me for saying what a friend must, chewie you take on too many causes, slow down and focus, which of course is entirely up to you, but you do post some out of date links, then canvass people to see if they have read them…..refs to hitler is fine legitimate imo…

@donkey. Re: posts some are recent as jan this year. Some last year …ok one was to do with uncut a while back…can i help it if not much happens today. Should i post from the future ? Some issues that show up are almost same as two or three years ago..ppl on Benefit and coming under attack they were then they are now…

The PIP stuff was the subject of this blog
So i decided to post on this subject and givr examples and pose questions

Hitler jokes is funny for five minutes
I wanted to ask how PIP process worked
And how flawed it was leading to the subject of this blog ..

In answer to your questions i was trying to be practical I font have much faith in democratic process but shouting ” its not fair boo the nasty Tories won’t help neither does spouting lefty cliches
You want assessments to stop ok ? So holding up a banner will do that will it ?
You got to get it into bozo tory head that there is a economic reason ..they don’t GAF about poor folks. We are typecast in their world no matter how you challenge ..you can’t even engage working clasd Tories ..
as they are the grunts the plebs that toffs laugh about ..
We don’t hold the reigns of power
One can only shine the light on corruption and incompetence if someone is willing to see it….

chewie
i posted on pip too, we all are in our own way….resist them by telling them that have power over one’s vitals, they’ll laugh at one…i’ve had many FtT tribunals….don’t give them an inch, this is not about banners, but knowing our rights and survival, yes protest as well….really anything that informs us of our rights and is up to date…i have already described how the wca/pip is flawed, many many times…..i don’t care about tories, nor politics, we need our vitals and we are entitled to them…begging for rights don’t work, insisting on them does….fight and support others in their fight with info, as much as can be given….like from this grassroots group etc etc….http://www.edinburghagainstpoverty.org.uk/

@donkey yes its worth fighting for I agree ..
I only posted here on PIP assedsments as seen from Crapita view in order to deconstruct it…sometimes you have to see what the other side is saying rather than bang your own drum ..with no one listening ..donkey we are in a PR war here …to gain ground you have to give relevance to some one in order to make your claim and stand your ground. Things happen when you get support and your point reaches others ..

@Donkey et Al completely O/T.
But I have been watching old video clips of the original line up of Genesis ..
Complete with potty peter Gabriel in upturned bluebell hat singing about what he likes in a wardrobe and miming pushing a cosmic lawn mower…wonderful and bloody daft at same time..

I feel quite lucky in the time scale part of my claim. Had PIP assessment on 9th January 2014 and received the decision(albeit wrong from my point of view on 7th February(letter dated 31st Jan). Apparently I only got 4 points for each section,yet I received 9 points for mobility side of ESA? I am waiting for the prat in the office(decision maker) to ring me and tell me why I failed. I know why and it`s got nothing to do with my health directly! I just happen to be one of the many thousands who “fail” to keep Idiot Duncan Smith and the DWP happy!

benadette h
yes, and on assessment rate, but there is a case for paying at least wrag rate after 13wks which is supposed to be the assessment period check up and find out, i have read about is somewhere…

@Donkey. Consider this if you will:
One man works hard at his job ..he works for someone else and expects to get paid fairly ..
Another man works hard at the business he created and also expects to be fairly rewarded ..
Both work hard…
Ideally they are on the same page at that point ..
” it’s the lazy worker ”
” its the greedy boss ”
On and on it goes whilst the Eton toffs piss on both ..

@donkey someone who tries to find work wants to aspire to get out of the rut at the bottom not just to pay the rent and stand still..
In same way as new boss of his own company does ..
The middle class aspire to be part of elite club of which they will never be part of ..
They don’t want to identify with those who are on the bottom rung ..

The sad joke is that the elite look down their nose at middle class yet use them to stay where they are .
Check out Messrs Cleese Barker and Corbet in that famous class sketch ..

chewie
answer bernadettes question….support, and advice, information…the rich want us to keep them in their lavish lifestyles and slave for them until we drop exhausted…..pip/wca etc etc, is designed to DENY us our rights…

@Donkey not now…Ive been chasing a mouse round the room today and its worn me out…and my brane ertz…
I wuz watching the gusts of wind blow the rain off the pavements earlier
Btw I am not answering any questions without my lawyer present.

As dr r. d. laing would say ‘they are in denial of their denial’
They deny, attack, blame, role reversal of victim to offender. Use
double binds, and contradictory messages, damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
example, your benefits will be stopped if you do not attend the assessment.
We are stopping your benefit as you managed to get to the assessment on the bus. You have no disability.

jasmine
yes…don’t let them rob one of one’s symptoms, because that is what they try to do…symptoms furnish descriptors not diagnosis….often there is no full diag at wca/pip et al…so how they can even come up with a prognosis is miraculous imo….diagnosis is caused by symptoms, diagnosis does not cause symptoms…it is a constant relentless grind with victories along they way….look at this on MR…..http://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/735/

It will be interesting to see who the people vote for next year in the electiion but with the labour front bench openly accepting benefit cuts it won’t do us any good whoever wins. By then everything the tories want will be in motion, a good number of the unemployed doing unpaid work which labour won’t reverse and more benefit cuts that labour are signing up to. Whatever problems the tories have they just change the law to suit themselves and as they have the control over the purse strings they can just keep us all waiting for years to reverse anything the courts say they must.
The only solution for us must be the unions showing some strength and supporting the poor but these days unions don’t want to strike for anyone but themselves and solidarity might be a word erased from the union bosses vocabulary when it comes to supporting the needy.
I would like to see a few comments on here that gave me hope that after the next election or before we might see the end of any kind of workfare or benefit cuts but I’m not holding my breath.

diane
they have no rights to patronise you, will anyone go with you, you do have the right to be accompanied…somewhere on this site it spells out one’s rights to be accompanied…http://www.edinburghagainstpoverty.org.uk/

LO AND BEHOLD, SERIOUS CRACKS ARE STARTING TO APPEAR IN THE GOVERNMENT VENEER OF OUR ECONOMY………….

A FEW WEEKS BACK BRITAIN WAS THE FIRE BREATHING DRAGON OF ALL OF EUROPE, THE ENVY OF EVERY NATION OF THE WORLD.

OUR ECONOMY WAS EXPANDING FASTER THAN THE MATABELE GUMBO BEADS!

EVERY DAY, THE STORY SELECTIVE MEDIA AND IMAGINARY STATISTICS PEOPLE, COUPLED WITH BUSINESS GROUPS FUNDED BY THE COALITION, SPEW OUT WORTHLESS PROJECTIONS AS ACCURATE AS A BOIL IN A MICROWAVE…………………

TODAY, THE OVERPAID NEW BANKER WITH A CAPITAL “W”, HAS REALISED HE CAN’T CONTINUE TO RUN WITH ALL THE BULLSHIT…..

OUR GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN PROMISING THAT WHEN THE ECONOMY WAS SAFE, AND UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES TOUCHED THE MAGICAL 7% TARGET, INTEREST RATES WOULD BE RAISED ACCORDINGLY.

MARK CARNEY, COUSIN OF REG VARNEY, HAS FELT HIS CANADIAN ARSE TWITCHING………………..

HE HAS DECIDED NOT TO TAKE THE 7% FIGURE ON IT’S MERITS, SAYING IT WOULD NOT BE THE RIGHT THING TO DO……………
OTHER THINGS SHOULD ALSO BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION….

IN OTHER WORDS, HE HAS SUDDENLY REALISED ALL THE HYPE IS A COMPLETE LOAD OF BOLLOCKS!
DREAMT UP BY THE MONEY MEN TO CREATE A FALSE DIMENSION THAT WOULD ENABLE QUICK PROFITS AND LEAVE THE TAXPAYERS TO STUMP UP ONCE AGAIN.

..THE MONEY MEN ARE ENGINEERING ANOTHER BUBBLE TO BURST IN THEIR FAVOUR, THIS TIME THE ONLY REFERENDUM SHOULD BE, WHO PICKS UP THE TAB………………

Have you never heard of people who overtime change their views ?. Paul Criag Roberts has an article somewhere on his site talking about his time with “Reagan”, his views were mostly ignored by Reagan!. I think his time on the “Wall Street Journal” was before Murdoch took it over!.

on the 18th of this month, next tuesday, i am at a tribunal to try and have my DLA reinstated.
They took it from me last july after i failed to fill in a form about how my disability affects me, in order to know if they are paying the right amount of benefit……………….
Rather strange really, because it effects me like it has done for the last fourteen years, since an accident at work………..

The questionnaire which they sent me, sought two signatures. One to say i gave my permission to access my GP’s records they hold on me, and also to make it available to a hcp they might use.
The other signature was the one to state that i had told the truth and action could be taken against me if i had been telling porkies.
The questionnaire is the tick box bullshit type, where whatever you wrote would be construed as a change of circumstance to accelerate you to an early PIP test .
I wrote and told them my circumstances had not changed. They decided that if i did not fill in the questionnaire, they would terminate my DLA.
They did.
Even stranger still, they sent me a letter explaining my disability and how it effects me, but went on to say my disability is not in doubt, they have stopped my money for not completing the questionnaire.

The questionnaire is not marked by anyone of medical knowledge, just a DWP decision maker.

Several MP’s have criticised these tick box questionnaires, stating they are not fit for purpose. I agree.
One of the questions was, how many days a week do you have difficulty walking?
Another, how many times a night does another person need to be awake to watch over you?
How long on average, does another person need to be awake to watch over you at night?
Is there anything else you want to tell us about why you need someone to watch over you at night?
How many nights a week do you need someone to watch over you?

Good on Susie Boniface for pointing out on BBC News that the unemployment figures “do not count people who have been sanctioned from their jobseekers allowance i.e. they are not being paid”. It was like a great big right-hook to that fucking bullcrap BbullshitBC ‘presenter’ as he squirmed in his hard-working licence-payer funder crocodile skin chair as he quickly changing subject. What a cunt!

I was thinking is anyone going to the European Human rights courts against these bastards. I know Legal Aid is no more but Surely someone could get sponsored to go to court against these sub human scum.

Two thirds of applicants for new disability benefit the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) have been turned down, the first official government statistics reveal.

While over 99% of claims made for people with terminal illnesses were successful, figures reveal only 37% of standard PIP claims were granted a cash contribution towards the extra costs associated with a long-term health condition or disability.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has received on average 30,000 claims per month for PIP, which was introduced for new claims in April.

Now being rolled out for existing claims of Disability Living Allowance (DLA), PIP includes a face-to-face assessment and regular reviews.

Evaluations assess a claimant’s ability to carry out a range of everyday activities alongside reading and verbal communication.

According to the DWP, only 6% of new DLA claimants had a face-to-face assessment with a healthcare professional – meaning over half of all decisions under the previous system were made without additional corroborating evidence.

Minister of state for disabled people, Mike Penning, said: ‘Personal Independence Payment has been designed to better reflect today’s understanding of disability – particularly to update our thinking on mental health and fluctuating conditions.

‘We are world-leaders in support for disabled people with the UK’s spending on disability-related benefits a fifth higher than the EU average. Our reforms – as part of our long-term economic plan – will ensure this support is better targeted at those who need it most.

This is dreadful. I remember them announcing the support levels for PIP and the descriptors automatically removed the lower rates of support for mobility and care that worked so well under DLA. This would have resulted in about one third of total applications/renewals being denied.

That two thirds have been denied is beyond shocking. I think someone somewhere in DWP/PIP/Provider liaison must be working overtime on the predictive stats and re-norm-referencing the scores so that some departmental wanker can announce….

“This system is behaving exactly how we planned it would, better in fact”

IDS is not well in the upstairs department, he has a LOT in common with Thatcher on that score!, many while serving in her cabinet said she was clinically insane!. I remember seeing a video a few years back, on it was Lawson, Heseltine, and a few others saying just that on the TV!. Looked for that video a few times since, it seems to have disappeared!!!.

Those belongings they could not pack were then left on the driveway in the rain.

They and their two young children subsequently spent several weeks sleeping in their car.

“There’d be the two boys in the back, under a couple of quilts. My wife would be up front here. And we’d eat in here,” he told the BBC.

“The following morning, we’d go to McDonald’s, so the boys could brush their teeth and then go off to school.”

Three months after the eviction, they have managed to get a single hotel room, but only have enough money for two more nights.

They cook pasta in an electric kettle and warm up tinned food with hot water in the washbasin.

“I’ve eaten more pot noodle than I care to admit. It’s grim,” said Andrew.

‘Changing circumstances’

Quite why more people are being evicted is hard to determine.

It could simply be that more people are renting, or it could be that more landlords are turning to the courts for help with evictions.

The cost of renting has increased, but only marginally.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that private sector rents across the UK rose by 1% last year, well below the rate of inflation.

But in places like London, rent rises may have outpaced wage increases.

“Rents have been rising at a faster rate than wages, and tenants are frequently maintaining their lifestyle on the basis of credit,” said Stuart Law of the property group Assetz.

He said that many tenants had been lulled into a false sense of security by talk of an economic recovery.

“But when that credit dries up, and the unsustainable lifestyle continues, payment of rent suffers,” he told the BBC.

Others were surprised by the figures.

The UK’s largest lettings agency, LSL, reported last month that rent arrears were falling.

Ian Potter, the managing director of the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA), said he too was surprised.

“I can only speculate that it’s tenants who’ve suffered changing circumstances,” he said.

The picture for those who own their own home is more positive, according to separate figures also published on Thursday, with low interest rates keeping mortgage costs down.

Banks and building societies reported that 28,900 homeowners had their property repossessed in 2013, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said.

This was 5,000 lower than in 2012 and the lowest annual figure since 2007.

Advice

The housing charity Shelter says that if people want to stay in their homes when faced with eviction, they need to act quickly.

“Behind these figures is the reality that just one thing, like an illness or redundancy, can be all it takes to tip anyone into a downward spiral that puts their home at risk,” said Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter.

The charity advises that rent payments should be the top priority.

Other debts, like credit cards or phone bills, should be negotiated later.

And those looking for an easy way out of trouble should not be tempted by payday loans.

Above all, it advises them to get professional advice, or call Shelter’s free helpline on 0808 800 4444.

Meanwhile, Andrew and his family are still homeless. He has even considered begging on the streets, but is determined not to do so.

“We will find a home. It may not be where we want it to be, but we will find it,” he said.

“We will make it our own, and we will look back on this as an experience.”

I’m waiting on decision on whether I can actually appeal. As the letter denying me my increased benefit got caught up in the Xmas Mail, therefore I was late in appealing.
I’m just finding that I’ve walked into a truly Kafkaesque situation, where I’m assumed to be guilty of trying to game the system. I’ve worked since I was 14, and paid my “National Insurance” for more than 35 yrs. Apparently I’m not entitled to claim a benefit that both myself ang my employers have paid into for all that time.
GRRRRRRR! I’m so angry and depressed by this!!!!

What makes you think that letter got caught up in the Xmas mail, and was not deliberately delayed? My Xmas cards (incoming and outgoing) also got ‘caught up’ in the Xmas mail — but they all arrived on time… What happens happens that way because those in power to make it happen make it happen that way. Everything is deliberate.

This is disgusting! All these people who have serious medical illnesses and disabilities that need help are not being believed and not getting pip even with medical letters to state what they need help with are still getting turned down including myself. Does anyone know if any parties are planning to reject pip? As i thought labour might but now not sure any info please on who to vote for.
The debilitating process im going through at the moment is horrendous and making my physical and mental health issues worse than usual. I guess im not alone how many more like me are going through this and the interview itself waa a sham and she lied in her report the assessor from capita did twisting my words and making them up. Making me do painful tests when i suffer chronic neuropathic pain and said even though ive been a type 1 diabetic 21 years saying im lying about the awful hypoglycaemia i suffer on a daily basis why would i make that up i have a machine that i could show them with my results but i thought of that too late she probably would say theres nothing to prove its my machine. Anyway I’m appealing as i have to many conditions to list but has anyone got any advice how do i complain to an mp?

Ii was on dla 35 years indefinate the atos woman lied about me she hardly asked anything and lied l got no points for anything not one lm unable to look after myself i was on severe disablement i gpt on esa no problem l cant do anything 9 disabilities that wouldent change the decision and dwp saiid l could do everything for mysel fits all lies i have amnesia i explained l was accused of lying lm depressed not able to seek help because of my brain disease among asthma osteoporosis bone disease diverticulitis vitamin b12 deficiency psoriatic arthritis immune disease and l use a stick l fall down lm undergoing cancer tests im always confused not senile i faint in a morning lve lost mobility care bus pass disabled rail pass l get lost if l try to travel dwp say l dont l have a permanant medical note they doont listen im terrified i wear one pair of shoes out every month l pay £150 a week for help besides losing full dla lve had £169 stripped off my esa im getting £110 a week now instead of £320 a week l need special food l recently became a widow rent arrears £310 l didnt know how to pay bills lm depressed crying all the time l feel like going to bed and going to join my late husband

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